Bug 24735

Summary:	packages not upgraded during 6.2->7.0 upgrade
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	josip
Component:	gnorpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	CC:	nicku
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Description josip 2001-01-23 20:11:37 UTC

High priority: this could hurt thousands of users upgrading 6.2->7.0

The 7.0 installer does not upgrade 6.2 packages whose revision level was
advanced because of a recent bug fix, but removes old 6.2 shared libraries,
so the (updated 6.2) package fails.

An example:  start with 6.2 and apply bug fixes for 6.2.  This installs
gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.i386.rpm package.  Then, do 7.0 upgrade which contains
only gnorpm-0.9-27.i386.rpm (which appears to be older than the existing
package).  The package is not replaced, but some of the shared libraries it
needs are.  Starting gnorpm in 7.0 fails because gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x looks
for an older version of a shared library.

This is a generic problem.  About a dozen other packages (bug fixes/updates
to 6.2) do not get upgraded on 7.0 install (e.g. netscape does not get
replaced).

Suggestion: take more care in numbering of package revisions and/or ask
user for assistance during the upgrade process when the existing package
appears newer than the one in 7.0.

Comment 1 josip 2001-01-23 22:32:38 UTC

I forgot to say that the 7.0 bugfix gnorpm-0.95.1-5.i386.rpm does NOT replace
the 6.2 bugfix gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.i386.rpm when using the usual 'rpm -U
gnorpm-0.95.1-5.i386.rpm'.  One has to use the --force flag as well.

Over a dozen other packages fail their 'rpm -Vp [redhat-package-file]' md5 file
tests after upgrade (6.2+bugfixes)->7.0->(7.0+bugfixes), indicating that this
problem is more general than just gnorpm.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-03-05 21:28:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22074 ***